Since Gandalf is my favorite character, it pains me to say it. But what this basically comes down to is Jesus (Aslan) against an angel (Gandalf), so I think the winner is clear. Was the world being born what called me...? At the bottom of the deep sea, I could hear a voice.

Tough call though, since they both have habits of not actually dying... Well, staying dead that is. It comes down to magical lion with big claws or magical man with stick. Though, I think Gandalf would put up a good fight :)

(if we submitted this to "Deadliest Warrior" think they'd laugh...? ) "All that we see or seem... Is but a dream within a dream."

I actually recommend that you read the Chronicles of Narnia, macfalk, or at least watch the movies. Both Narnia and Middle Earth were the writers' ways of setting up a 'pararellel universe' for Christian mythology---in fact, C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien were actually best friends and were constantly inspiring/challenging each other throughout their entire lives. It's probably not going too far too say that they were instrumental in helping to develop each other's fictional worlds, as they were part of the same writing group and very supportive of each other as both people and writers.

Like Gandalf, Aslan becomes more amazing the more you learn about him. I don't want to give out any spoilers, but you should read the books. :) Many of us do prefer Middle Earth, myself included, but Narnia is also awesome. Was the world being born what called me...? At the bottom of the deep sea, I could hear a voice.

a poor excuse for a metaphor. Narnia is interesting but can't hold a candle to Lord of the Rings & The Hobbit. Kangi Ska Resident Trickster & Wicked White Crebain New Zealand is Middle-earth & today life is good.

Well, duh But you shouldn't really dismiss Narnia without having read it, because it is still interesting and Narnia fans are almost like a Tolkien fan's extended family. Some fans feel like you have to like just one or the other, but you totally don't. A lot of fans actually do like both, though it's no shame to have a preference for one or the other. Was the world being born what called me...? At the bottom of the deep sea, I could hear a voice.

But some lions are not just lions, like some Elves are not just ordinary Elves. ;) Like Auri and I said, Aslan is allegorically the Christian God in disguise. He is more powerful than you would think just by looking at a lion's form. Gandalf is subservient to and less powerful than Eru, who is the equivalent of the Christian God in Tolkien's universe. Since Aslan is effectively the same being as Eru, this means that Aslan could defeat Gandalf. They are just different fictional worlds. Though they didn't start out that way, Narnia and Arda were actually (albeit very, very slightly) sort of a friendly competition between Tolkien and Lewis about who could write the better Christian-inspired fiction. They were serious about their fictional worlds anyway, but they have more in common than you might think. Tollkien just had more volume and more adult themes plus the languages.... while I think he was the better writer, many others disagree. Kangi doesn't, but he stated that a bit snidely. When you agreed with him, you indirectly did the same. Was the world being born what called me...? At the bottom of the deep sea, I could hear a voice.

and I found parts of it quite interesting but I never really got into Narnia, Inever really believed in it. Kangi Ska Resident Trickster & Wicked White Crebain New Zealand is Middle-earth & today life is good.

LOTR wasn't written particularly for children. The Narnia books were. Keep this in mind. You wouldn't write three paragraphs discussing the color of the leaves in a children's book; they'd die of boredom. If Narnia seems less in-depth compared to LOTR that's because it is. Kids don't care about the history of the land, they care about the immediate story at hand (granted this is a generalization...you always get the more... interesting kids who actually care about something other than Spongebob Squarepants and shiny flashing noisemaker buttons. Sadly these children often suffer cruelly at the hands of their banal peers, as anything outside the norm is discouraged in most schools). Lack of intricate detail doesn't mean that the story isn't any good, it just means that it was written for a different audience.

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But I was trying to point out that you could read the entire set twice and still think that it has problems. Kangi Ska Resident Trickster & Wicked White Crebain New Zealand is Middle-earth & today life is good.

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This also is true----but as Aira said, the two were intended for different audiences and readerships. As such, you can't really use all of the same standards when comparing the two. Was the world being born what called me...? At the bottom of the deep sea, I could hear a voice.